Section: Pakistan
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Israeli PM, angered by anti-settlement U.N. vote, summons U.S. ambassador
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Israel to discuss the U.S. abstention in a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building.Separately, the envoys of 10 other nations were called in to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded on Sunday,...
Israel, angered by anti-settlement UN vote, summons foreign ambassadors
JERUSALEM: Israel summoned the ambassadors of 10 nations to Jerusalem to reprimand them on Sunday and had more harsh words for the Obama administration over a UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put his personal imprint on the show of anger by repeating at the weekly cabinet...
Berlin market attack: Tunisia arrests suspect Amri’s nephew
Tunisia on Saturday said it had arrested the nephew of Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker gunned down by Italian police, as Germany searched for the militant’s possible accomplices. Tunisia’s interior ministry said the nephew and two other suspects, aged between 18 and 27, were detained on Friday and were members of a...
Ukraine rebels agree to new indefinite truce
KIEV: A top Ukrainian insurgent has said the rebels had agreed to an indefinite ceasefire negotiated by Moscow and Kiev that would go into effect this weekend. The latest truce was hammered out with the help of European monitors and came after a surge in fighting that claimed the lives of eight Ukrainian soldiers this week. Russia denies backing...
Germany hunts attacker’s accomplices, arrests in Tunisia
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany on Saturday hunted for possible accomplices of Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker who was gunned down by Italian police, as Tunisia announced it had arrested his nephew.Tunisias interior ministry said the nephew and two other suspected jihadists, aged between 18 and 27, were detained on Friday and were...
Putin warms to Trump, flexes muscles on Syria
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday appeared to cosy up to US President-elect Donald Trump while asserting his authority as the key powerbroker in Syria.At his annual end-of-year press conference, the confident Kremlin strongman praised Trump for tapping into the public mood in the US to claim his surprise win in...
Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant
A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve...
US-supplied drones disappoint Ukraine at the front lines
Millions of dollars’ worth of US-supplied drones that Kiev had hoped would help in its war against Russian-backed separatists have proven ineffective against jamming and hacking, Ukrainian officials say. The 72 Raven RQ-11B Analog mini-drones were so disappointing following their arrival this summer that Natan Chazin, an advisor to...
Ukraine adopts austerity budget along IMF lines
KIEV – Ukraine’s parliament on Wednesday approved an austerity federal budget for 2017 that doubles minimum wages but keeps the deficit in line with the target set by the International Monetary Fund. Lawmakers haggled over the bill into the early morning hours before passing it with some reservations about the social provisions it...
The Indicators
As global leadership evolves, so must we Certain unexpected events occurred in 2016. Britain was jolted by ‘Brexit’. This started introvert-looking nationalism. The entire world was stunned by the decisive defeat of Hillary Clinton, a moderate veteran of three decades of public service supported by the establishment, who was the favorite to...
